Is there one weird trick for finding your strongest bench press grip?

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We got this dead tests e cro, dead test ceter. Okay. I

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kind of like Discord because it comes
from gaming roots, and so sometimes you

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get the craziest names because they're just
gamer tags. I got it. Yeah,

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that's not everyone, because some people
like Keith you know og Yeah,

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Keith Honeycut. I assume that's his
government name. Uh. I mean that's

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fine, Keith. I'm not judging
you, dude, but it would be

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better if we had your original Xbox
name in there, yeah, because that's

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what most people are, even like
big streamers, you know, they're like

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some of them are like kind of
embarrassing their names because it was just like

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their first Xbox name. Ever,
so my question actually before we get into

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it, is why is it called
Discord because that sounds like yeah, yeah,

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I don't know. I should ask
a kid I grew up with,

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I think was I was close for
friends with his brother who played basketball with

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me, and his dad's from Argentina, so our families were kind of close.

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He went to Hogwarts, but his
older brother I think was like first

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ten employees at Discord oh geez.
Yeah, yeah, because I think it's,

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you know, just a Silicon Valley
gig. I think they're just like

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ten dudes programming out of a strip
mall. Yeah, and now they're one

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of the biggest. I'll tell you
off stream because I told Sea best.

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I think I have a billion dollar
idea today. Okay, social media,

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yeah, social media, Okay,
I think it's really good. I don't

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know how to do it. It's
way yeah, it's way over my head,

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but I do think it's genius that
test setro. What's the idea deal

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way to tell your sa a deal? Way to tell your damn bro?

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What's the ideal way to tell your
ideal bench press with? So I always

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maybe the best way? Yeah,
one. I don't think there's an ideal

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way or an X factor for testing
anything. You're you're gonna have to move

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around and try and error a lot
of things. But I do rely on

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something I learned from Borschko when I
hung out with him for a couple of

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weeks, and often I think his
advice is bench as wide as you can

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that doesn't feel uncomfortable or cause an
injury. So as wide as you can

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comfortably is probably a good place to
start. Again, if you're competing in

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powerlifting, that means your index finger
has to be on the ring or under,

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and that doesn't mean you have to
go there, but typically speaking slightly

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wide, there's gonna be better for
a raw bench press. Yeah, there

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isn't a trick for it the way
there is around like squatting and deadlifting,

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where if you you hang from a
bar and then dropped to the ground,

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and that's the a good place to
start. That's a good place to start.

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That's where your body thinks you're going
to be the most stable. Yeah,

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yeah, and even that right because
then sumo, right, who knows,

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and because all of it's a game
of like leverage and like forest production,

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balance or stability, but then also
leverages because like landing doesn't always take

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an account your leverages. So if
you're pulling sumo and your femurs are held

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along, you might be more like
stable closer, but you won't be able

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to then range of motion is gonna
be a bitch because you've got hell along

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femurs, and then how mobile your
hips are. So it does get a

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little more complicated than that, but
for bench probably is actually, I guess,

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yeah, the simplest one actually,
And be open to the fact that

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your bench grip might change over time, like your your you know, level

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of comfort, how banged up your
shoulders are at the time, how much

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muscle you have. Yeah, like, I think it is hard to bench

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with a wider grip if you don't
have the back for it. Yeah,

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yeah, the titties, Yeah,
yeah, it can all be hard.

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But but I guess to argue our
own points, where you bench is where

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you will build muscle. Right,
So, a lot of the big,

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big dudes and you know, world
records over the last whatever thirty years have

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been slightly narrower grip, but again
they're you know, three hundred pound men,

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they got large arms, big tricepts. So for I assume that's probably

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not the majority of who's listening from
the masses, a slightly wider grip tends

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to be better. You don't see
a lot of big benches by you know,

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sub two hundred and fifty pound people
that are super narrow. What's where

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where's your finger relative of the ring. When I'm like competing, competing or

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like trying to build my bench,
I go middle finger on the ring.

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But I got really stubby arms too, So that's like really wide. I

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think we measured and we didn't do
it super accurately. But I'm probably five

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nine five feet tall, and my
my wingspans like five nine. Yeah,

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you know, so that's pretty long
for me, pretty wide. I started

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out as wide as you can for
competition. That's pretty normal with bench shirts.

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Yeah, most guys try to because
then you obviously get more stretched out

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of the shirt, which is kind
of true with no shirt too, if

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you get more stretched out of your
packs and you less range of motion.

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Yeah, And I eventually ended up
with the middle finger kind of moderate.

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Yeah, move it in a little
bit. It was a little As my

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shoulders got more banged up, it
was easier to deal with it a little

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bit further in Although shirts like move
some of the weight or like hold some

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of the weight, how you move
in a shirt, I feel like it's

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even less natural than raw Oh,
it would be like internally rotating and shit,

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like your shoulders, your shoulders can
get beat up raw for sure,

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I'm not saying that, Like the
bench is the healthiest thing for your shoulders.

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But in a shirt, you're just
like a contortionist act. Yeah pretty

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much, because you're because your elbows
have to be in. Yeah, you're

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touching a way different thing, and
you're touching in a way different spot.

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And yeah, if your elbows are
out, you're never gonna touch Yeah.

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Yeah, maybe like a super loose
shirt. Yeah, it doesn't doesn't so

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very fun. It's it at all. You're not miss being in a bench

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shirt. I mean, I think
that's probably why you gained or fell out

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of favor, right, Like lifting
big weights is cool, and even the

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couple times that I would throw on
briefs and squat with you guys, it

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was like fun. But like to
like have to do it as your sport,

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it's just so much work. It's
more expensive, it's more painful.

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I did like squatting and briefs.
Yeah it feels good, but like even

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now, like obviously I'm not competing, but like I'll like throw nie leaves

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on and not a belt, like
even a belt becomes like a task,

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you know, or like low bar
squatting becomes a task. I got to

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wedge myself in there, so I
just put the bar a little higher,

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you know, because I want to
do it without like making a three hour

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warm up and without the three hour
pain afterwards, or like I was taking

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advil every night for a while,
you know, just like and that's like

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a basic thing, Like there's just
like hurts. It's there's definitely other ways

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to still get strong, but if
you want to be like your strongest,

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it's kind of the only half,
yeah, because being very uncomfortable. Yeah,

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yeah, that's true. No,
I don't think I knew anybody who

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was in gear regularly who did not
have to take some kind of analgesic or

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another, yeah, to make just
to make it through the day, which

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is crazy. Yeah. Yeah,
obviously we trained with really elite lifters,

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but it's like, if you're really
casual, you can probably get away with

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it, but if you're really trying
to be at the top of your ship

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benching or otherwise, it's gonna be
very uncomfortable. Hopefully, try that with

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grip, dude, Yeah, I
would, I would try probably for the

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masses right ring finger or middle finger
on the ring and then adjust from there.

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That probably hits seventy percent of the
pocket. If you arch a little

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bit more, you can probably go
a little bit wider and still have decent

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shoulders. If you're a little bit
thicker, you might be a little bit

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narrower because in the range of motion
is not gonna be as much. You

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might have some leverages, but still
have to play like illegal wides. Not

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for competition bench, but just yeah, yeah, it definitely stretched it out.

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Feel good. You're gonna handle less
way, but it'll feel decent.

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Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff, but I'll just take time. But

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